Hector Munro

Biographical Summary

"II. Hector Munro, who entered the army, and rose to the rank of Major. He married Isabel, daughter of James Dunbar of Tarbat, with issue —

• Robert, his heir and successor.
• John, who, like his father, entered the army
• Christian, who married Alexander Mackenzie, progenitor of the Mackenzie families of Applecross and Coul, with issue.
• Helen, who married Robert Munro, VI. of Coul, and V. of Balconie.

Hector appears to have sold or " tochered " the Assynt estate to his son-in-law Alexander Mackenzie of Coul, who gave it to his son, Kenneth, who in 1644, appears as proprietor. Hector however had purchased for his son the lands of Inveran and of Achness, from John Gordon of Embo.

He died at Inveran before the 4th of June, 1616, and was succeeded by his son."

SOURCE: History of the Munros of Fowlis: with genealogies of the principal families of the name to which are added those of Lexington and New England; Alexander Mackenzie; 1898; page 470